Play Multiple Games From USB Stick On The C64 Mini, Well Kinda..

JMMReview over on YouTube has recently shared an interesting video showing us how to play more than one game from USB stick on the C64Mini. Now before you get too excited, it’s not what you think, currently there’s still no official firmware update, that allows more than one .d64 file on the usb stick. However, this is a neat little trick you can do, by using an empty .d64 file and adding games to it. You can add up to five games per .d64 file, which is at least a step forward from the one game limit. To do this this you must download a small windows program called DirMaster v3.1.1/Style. It’s very simple to use and will save you a bit of time messing around swapping files on your PC. Watch the video below and follow the steps carefully. Have fun! 😉

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OK, sorry, but this instruction video is so unnecessary complicated… All you need is this:
– 64Copy, a program in commander style that can copy files between all C64 formats (https://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/personal.html)
– run it and create an empty d64 file
– as a first program, copy an autostart disk menu program. There are many (I can send you a few if needed), you just load them with LOAD “*”,8,1 and they load themselves, autostart, read directory and show it on screen. Then you can select anything form current disk (usually using cursor keys and return/space, or by pressing a single letter), the program/game gets loaded and started, no need for endless load/run typing. As a bonus, some of them come with integrated fastload.
– then you transfer games from d64/prg/whatever you want and that’s it, your image is ready without the need to extract prg files from d64 just to copy them into another
– the bonus is that d64copy works well under dosbox, so other OS-es are covered too